{"id":83748,"date":"2026-01-19T17:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=83748"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:04:18","slug":"south-africa-declares-natural-disaster-as-30-killed-and-thousands-flee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/19\/south-africa-declares-natural-disaster-as-30-killed-and-thousands-flee\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa declares natural disaster as 30 killed and thousands flee"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1UsF10.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"TOPSHOT-CORRECTION \/ SAFRICA-WEATHER-FLOOD\" \/><\/p>\n<p>South Africa has declared a national disaster after torrential rains and widespread flooding killed at least 30 people in the country&#8217;s northern regions.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/south-africa-declares-natural-disaster-as-30-killed-and-thousands-flee\/ar-AA1UsF12?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=818168b026544f06ab4cf7a4d4e32667&amp;ei=26\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>South Africa has declared a national disaster after torrential rains and widespread flooding killed at least 30 people in the country&#8217;s northern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Flooding-southern-Africa.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83749,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83748\/revisions\/83749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}